NCAA legislation that passed this week will ensure that the WAC will retain its automatic bid to the NCAA tournament in basketball.

It was in danger of being stripped after the many defections from the WAC to the Mountain West because of a lack of "continuity of membership."

The new rules that were passed this week relax those restrictions.  A conference must now have at least seven active members that sponsor men's basketball, as well as six that sponsor at least five other men's sports.